Posted: Jan 27, 2011 7:22 pm
The cat is a thought experiment, it wouldn't work in reality, because as you say information would leak out of the box in the form of heat, light, electrons etc. so the superposition wouldn't be preserved.
QM observation doesn't make any distinction between a human observer an animal or even a single photon.
QM observation doesn't make any distinction between a human observer an animal or even a single photon.